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to a lot of us lives are at risk. people's live, families are at risk. >> well, the two are not mutually exclusive. i mean, that is, you can have a personal life and you can be very good at what you do and as a matter of fact, both generals, both general petraeus and general allen are extremely professional and very good at what they do in their professional lives. to expect that nobody is going to have a personal life, as well, not going to sit down and think about or do secret else, i think it's a little bit too much to expect. we should expect rectitude among our highest level officials and in this case, we should be very concerned about the fact that he did do that. i don't think that had an impact on his job. >> jack, let me ask to you stand by. i'm learning senator john mccain is calling for a select committee on the benghazi attack. >> seek to blame a spontaneous demonstration for the attack in benghazi when it was later acknowledged that no protest even occurred in benghazi and that the station chief in tripol
to a lot of us lives are at risk. people's live, families are at risk. >> well, the two are not mutually exclusive. i mean, that is, you can have a personal life and you can be very good at what you do and as a matter of fact, both generals, both general petraeus and general allen are extremely professional and very good at what they do in their professional lives. to expect that nobody is going to have a personal life, as well, not going to sit down and think about or do secret else, i...
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he joins us by phone. congressman, good afternoon to you. >> thank for having me on. >> acting cia director mike morell will testify, not general petraeus. are you going to insist that the general testify despite his resignation? >> i'm a member of the intelligence committee. i certainly believe that general petraeus should testify. now, it doesn't have to be this week but it has to be very soon thereafter because if general petraeus is the only one who would be at the center of what happened with benghazi involving the cia, involving theed a handwriting, he would have the pieces of the puzzle and mike morell, he's the number two person but general petraeus came to the capitol hill to brief the intelligence committee afterwards. he was at the eye of the storm. so i think ultimately but really sooner rather than later general petraeus will have to be a witness and to me he's an essential witness and, if not, we will not get to the bottom of what happened in benghazi. to say that, he's an outstanding patriot
he joins us by phone. congressman, good afternoon to you. >> thank for having me on. >> acting cia director mike morell will testify, not general petraeus. are you going to insist that the general testify despite his resignation? >> i'm a member of the intelligence committee. i certainly believe that general petraeus should testify. now, it doesn't have to be this week but it has to be very soon thereafter because if general petraeus is the only one who would be at the center...
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martin fletcher is live for us in tel aviv. and martin has been covering this for us. bring us up to speed on what's happening. your reporting has been extensive firsthand. >> reporter: hi, thomas. there's been a continued firing in both directions. 30 rockets fired in one israeli town today. one person was injured. otherwise little damage. the real is it's pretty clear that a ceasefire has been agreed and it will be announced in gaza, cairo and jerusalem probably within the next few hours, not necessarily at the same time in each place but it's clear that that's what's happening. secretary of state hillary clinton coming to jerusalem tonight and a whole slew of arab leaders are coming to gaza. the fight iing will be over witn a few hours and hopefully will last a long time. what we're told is there is an agreement for the fighting to end from both sides, and then the details of the agreement are still to be worked out. the key point, though, it looks like the fighting is over. no israeli ground invasion of gaza. >> martin, as you say, the details are yet to be announc
martin fletcher is live for us in tel aviv. and martin has been covering this for us. bring us up to speed on what's happening. your reporting has been extensive firsthand. >> reporter: hi, thomas. there's been a continued firing in both directions. 30 rockets fired in one israeli town today. one person was injured. otherwise little damage. the real is it's pretty clear that a ceasefire has been agreed and it will be announced in gaza, cairo and jerusalem probably within the next few...
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it is great to have you with us to help explain to all of us about what we know, the facts about this platform exploding. do we have any information about what caused it? >> we don't have any information about what caused it. that really is going to be left up to the coast guard to make a determination. right now they're in search and rescue mode. the coast guard, from what we understand, has responded. there have been four patients that have been airlifted to our parish hospital, three of them we received word on are in critical condition. there are also reports, although unofficial at this time, two people have died and there are other people who may be missing. the latest from the coast guard is that the platform fire is attempting to be extinguished and we're waiting for additional word from them as to whether or not there are other issues that has to be dealt with in with regards to this. >> nbc news has not verified any deaths in relation to this. where are you getting your information from? >> from local reports and also from our emergency management department and others who h
it is great to have you with us to help explain to all of us about what we know, the facts about this platform exploding. do we have any information about what caused it? >> we don't have any information about what caused it. that really is going to be left up to the coast guard to make a determination. right now they're in search and rescue mode. the coast guard, from what we understand, has responded. there have been four patients that have been airlifted to our parish hospital, three...
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she shouldn't use classified information. she is required in her position to use unclassified information. and that's precisely what she did. information provided to her unanimously by the intelligence community. to go after susan rice is totally and completely unfair. and those who are doing it repeatedly ought to back off. that is not where fault lies. >> senator conrad, great to have you with me. here to talk over some of the issues, ed schultz. ed, great to have you here. a lot to get into this morning as we talk about the fiscal cliff. erskine bowles says he thinks democrats and republicans are serious about getting a deal done, but when you hear congressman cole walking back statements, do you think that's true? >> cole doesn't want to be a political target of the right. so he can easily say i really didn't mean that prks and to ge of the news. and probably trying to set the table for other guys. which is a signal that the right wing is still very stuck in con kreetd as you said earlier. they don't want to move. they ar
she shouldn't use classified information. she is required in her position to use unclassified information. and that's precisely what she did. information provided to her unanimously by the intelligence community. to go after susan rice is totally and completely unfair. and those who are doing it repeatedly ought to back off. that is not where fault lies. >> senator conrad, great to have you with me. here to talk over some of the issues, ed schultz. ed, great to have you here. a lot to get...
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for us, pete. thanks to you. let's bring in nationally syndicated radio talk show host michael and cnbc contributor and former democratic governor of virginia, doug wilder. good afternoon to both of you gentlemen. governor, i'm going to start with you. let's pick up right where we left off on the supreme court agreeing to hear this voting rights case as the nation's first black governor since reconstruction. what is your reaction to the news from the high court? >> well, i was the first elected black governor. >> that's important distinction. >> and that's why i thought it a distinction to particularly since we're talking about the voting rights act. i'm tremendously disappointed that they have agreed to do this. i'm not surprised because they've hinted, as you pointed out that, that they were going to look at it. is the time to remove it? no. what is the rush for removing? when you hear these people say, well, there is no need to have it now. and it's burdensome. burdensome on who? onerous on whom? when you cons
for us, pete. thanks to you. let's bring in nationally syndicated radio talk show host michael and cnbc contributor and former democratic governor of virginia, doug wilder. good afternoon to both of you gentlemen. governor, i'm going to start with you. let's pick up right where we left off on the supreme court agreeing to hear this voting rights case as the nation's first black governor since reconstruction. what is your reaction to the news from the high court? >> well, i was the first...
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thanks for joining us. just one thing to pass along that we just got to us here at msnbc is the fact that u.n. ambassador susan rice is now on the schedule of senator bob corker, a republican from tennessee who has been critical of rice over the past several weeks telling reporters that she sounds more like the head of the democratic national committee when talking about what's going on with the obama administration, and that doesn't sound like a positive secretary of state to him because they need to show their ability to be independent. but, again, senator corker's office now saying they believe they have a private meeting with ambassador rice. >>> it's often lost in politics of the fiscal cliff is how a cliff dive will actually impact your personal finances. and whether you have a job or not if you pay taxes, you're going to take a hit. first place you're going to see it, the federal tax rate for a middle income family. and that means an extra $2,000 out of pocket. next is the payroll tax. if you make, s
thanks for joining us. just one thing to pass along that we just got to us here at msnbc is the fact that u.n. ambassador susan rice is now on the schedule of senator bob corker, a republican from tennessee who has been critical of rice over the past several weeks telling reporters that she sounds more like the head of the democratic national committee when talking about what's going on with the obama administration, and that doesn't sound like a positive secretary of state to him because they...
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tweet us your replies. we use this board to compare car insurance rates side by side so you get the same coverage, often for less. that's one smart board. what else does it do, reverse gravity? [ laughs ] [ laughs ] [ whooshing ] tell me about it. why am i not going anywhere? you don't believe hard enough. a smarter way to shop around. now that's progressive. call or click today. [ grunting ] >>> back in command in afghanistan, general jon allen resumed his duties today more than a week after the pentagon announced it was investigating emails between him and a woman tied to the david petraeus affair. and there are still unanswered questions in the petraeus scandal like why did the fbi keep investigating the cia director if he committed no crime? and could petraeus have resigned for basically nothing? joining us from minneapolis is former cia officer criminal defense attorney jack rice. good to have you here. this new "washington post"/abc poll finds out that even after he resigned people see general david p
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that's double miles you can actually use... sadly, their brother's white christmas just got "blacked out." [ brother ] but it's the family party! really jingles your bells, doesn't it? my gift to you! the capital one venture card! for any flight, any time! that's double miles you can actually use! how illuminating. what's in your wallet? let me guess, am i on the naughty list again? ho ho ho! how much is your current phone bill? four sixteen seventy six a month! okay, come with me --...
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many of us said the same thing. democrats won 25 out of 3 # senate races, and he has got to stick to that position. we will be right behind him on that. >> sir, you've been vocal and an advocate for the progressive agenda. what do you think the president can get done as a liberal? we talked about reducing the deficit, avoiding the fiscal cliff. where will the middle be met? >> on this issue, i think the american people spoke during the election, and poll after poll shows the same thing. all across the board. regardless of political ideology, the american people are saying do not cut social security. harry reid was right when he said social security has nothing to do with deficit reduction, take it off the table. you do it in a way that's fair. and what that is, the wealthy got to pay their fair share. these are ob surd tax havens in the cayman islands. you take a hard look at military spending. >> the president as we have been pointing out, the schedule will put him in manhattan to view storm damage from sandy. mayo
many of us said the same thing. democrats won 25 out of 3 # senate races, and he has got to stick to that position. we will be right behind him on that. >> sir, you've been vocal and an advocate for the progressive agenda. what do you think the president can get done as a liberal? we talked about reducing the deficit, avoiding the fiscal cliff. where will the middle be met? >> on this issue, i think the american people spoke during the election, and poll after poll shows the same...
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thanks for being with us. happy thanksgiving. the ed show with ed schultz starts now. >>> good morning, everyone. happy thanksgiving. i'm alex witt. with latest from israel to the big parade in manhattan a packed morning for you. the balloons are filled, ready to go, talking about the 86th annual macy's thanksgiving day parade. live for you along the parade route. >>> the president is behind her, now u.n. ambassador susan rice defendinging her record to critics taking her to task on benghazi. will it be enough? >>> celebrations in gaza. so far, the day-old cease-fire is holding but the real work begins. and that fragile cease-fire between israel and hamas militants brokered by the u.s. government and egyptian president morsi. it is less than 24 hours old. there is deep mistrust. civilians on both sides hoping the agreement will bring a permanent end to the deadly air strikes and rocket fire. in gaza with the i have latest, eamon, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. for the first time in nine days the people of gaza were able
thanks for being with us. happy thanksgiving. the ed show with ed schultz starts now. >>> good morning, everyone. happy thanksgiving. i'm alex witt. with latest from israel to the big parade in manhattan a packed morning for you. the balloons are filled, ready to go, talking about the 86th annual macy's thanksgiving day parade. live for you along the parade route. >>> the president is behind her, now u.n. ambassador susan rice defendinging her record to critics taking her to...
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we used to have 14. they reduced that to eight. they didn't have as many places to vote for early voting. that's an obvious commonsense problem. so you have more. and you do what's right and make sure that you have enough of those early voting days. and if they aren't enough and the lines are long, then you sign an executive order as the chief executive of the state and give people what they deserve, a decent chance to cast their ballot, not have to wait in line, six, seven hours in some cases. i saw in miami gardens and other places in the state, it's not the right thing to do for the people you're supposed to be serving. >> there is talk, speculation that you could run against scott as a democrat in 2014. is that a possibility? >> anything's possible. i'm not ruling anything in or anything out. what i'm focused on is being pleased for president obama, that florida came home for him, that senator nelson won. patrick murphy winning over against allen west on the east coast of the state. and koconsecratkonconcentrating thanksgiving,
we used to have 14. they reduced that to eight. they didn't have as many places to vote for early voting. that's an obvious commonsense problem. so you have more. and you do what's right and make sure that you have enough of those early voting days. and if they aren't enough and the lines are long, then you sign an executive order as the chief executive of the state and give people what they deserve, a decent chance to cast their ballot, not have to wait in line, six, seven hours in some cases....
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and do our part for the businesses that do so much for us. on november 24th, let's get out and shop small. but proven technologies allow natural gas producers to supply affordable, cleaner energy, while protecting our environment. across america, these technologies protect air - by monitoring air quality and reducing emissions... ...protect water - through conservation and self-contained recycling systems... ... and protect land - by reducing our footprint and respecting wildlife. america's natural gas... domestic, abundant, clean energy to power our lives... that's smarter power today. >>> okay. so in the wake of a high profile resignation of david petraeus and the new allegations surrounding john allen in afghanistan, there are lots of new questions being asked about how the scandal could affect the future of the cia and the covert community. joining me with insight is former cia operative who is also the author of a new spy novel. let's talk about this, michael, because someone who has close tabs to the espionage community and this is play
and do our part for the businesses that do so much for us. on november 24th, let's get out and shop small. but proven technologies allow natural gas producers to supply affordable, cleaner energy, while protecting our environment. across america, these technologies protect air - by monitoring air quality and reducing emissions... ...protect water - through conservation and self-contained recycling systems... ... and protect land - by reducing our footprint and respecting wildlife. america's...
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sir, great to have you with us. mitch mcconnell saying the president should be speaking to members of his own party. interestingly enough, moments ago we heard from someone within mitch mcconnell's party, speaker john boehner, saying he thinks a deal is possible. take a listen. >> it's time for the president and democrats to get serious about the spending problem that our country has. but i'm optimistic. >> he's optimistic. we also have boehner saying he is disagreeing with tom cole, one of the few republicans who have come out to usual his party to strike a deal. right now, get this done. keeping the bush tax cults for 98% of americans, give up on keeping tax cuts low for the wealthy, 2%. take a listen to what cole on capitol hill had to say moments ago. >> in my view, we all agree that we're not going to raise taxes on people who make less than $250,000. we should take them out of this discussion right now and continue to fight against any rate increase, continue to try to work honestly for a much bigger deal. >>
sir, great to have you with us. mitch mcconnell saying the president should be speaking to members of his own party. interestingly enough, moments ago we heard from someone within mitch mcconnell's party, speaker john boehner, saying he thinks a deal is possible. take a listen. >> it's time for the president and democrats to get serious about the spending problem that our country has. but i'm optimistic. >> he's optimistic. we also have boehner saying he is disagreeing with tom...
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call or visit us online. we're ready to help. >>> so what is the path toward 1600 pennsylvania avenue in 2016 look like? let's bring back in the sunday brain trust. joan walsh, perry bacon, and matt welsh. you know what? i'm going to start with you. let's talk about latino voters this year. we've heard over the past three or four days ad nauseam folks talk about what someone like marco rubio could mean at the top of the ticket for the gop. is it that simple? will it take a lot more than just sticking a latino on the ticket to help the gop make end roads? >> yeah, it's going to take a lot more than that. first of all, let's remember that mitt romney as a candidate was probably the most hostile to illegal immigration and arguably immigration than any major party candidate had been maybe in my lifetime. or certainly in the last 30 years. john mccain almost lost the republican primary season in 2008 because he was in favor of comprehensive immigration reform. he had to double back. they're going to have to get ou
call or visit us online. we're ready to help. >>> so what is the path toward 1600 pennsylvania avenue in 2016 look like? let's bring back in the sunday brain trust. joan walsh, perry bacon, and matt welsh. you know what? i'm going to start with you. let's talk about latino voters this year. we've heard over the past three or four days ad nauseam folks talk about what someone like marco rubio could mean at the top of the ticket for the gop. is it that simple? will it take a lot more...